{"id":25,"date":"2016-08-11T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/2016\/08\/11\/the-purple-onion\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:56:00","slug":"the-purple-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/2016\/08\/11\/the-purple-onion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purple Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-fNwBNBkUMwc\/V6xxf4BYL2I\/AAAAAAAAC0Y\/8IpYWxDpqoYONswSzhOcZkuEiQE3Ck0pQCLcB\/s1600\/Thornaby%2B1092.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-fNwBNBkUMwc\/V6xxf4BYL2I\/AAAAAAAAC0Y\/8IpYWxDpqoYONswSzhOcZkuEiQE3Ck0pQCLcB\/s400\/Thornaby%2B1092.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7SQ2bwGR74Q\/V6xzGDHsfMI\/AAAAAAAAC0o\/jhXPAjfsrpYcP7ciaMLk7LdQHj_SeWZawCLcB\/s1600\/Thornaby%2B1093.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7SQ2bwGR74Q\/V6xzGDHsfMI\/AAAAAAAAC0o\/jhXPAjfsrpYcP7ciaMLk7LdQHj_SeWZawCLcB\/s400\/Thornaby%2B1093.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Peter Stockill of the <a href=\"http:\/\/teesliteraryhistory.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/05\/teesside-writers-workshop.html\">Teesside Writers Workshop<\/a> tried to organise the groups performance event at the Purple Onion.Peter and John Miles Longden used to meet as writers in the original Purple Onion in Bottomley Street, Middlesbrough back in the 1960&#8217;s.The new purple Onion was a different setting altogether and so the event was held at the Cornerhouse pub near the station.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-G5N3d88c7eA\/V6x17sJHoAI\/AAAAAAAAC00\/gCs1eKZdt44Z5OWRDeuxxPQqD-7lmYVdACLcB\/s1600\/PurpleOnion%2B1015.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-G5N3d88c7eA\/V6x17sJHoAI\/AAAAAAAAC00\/gCs1eKZdt44Z5OWRDeuxxPQqD-7lmYVdACLcB\/s640\/PurpleOnion%2B1015.jpg\" width=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Stockill of the Teesside Writers Workshop tried to organise the groups performance event at the Purple Onion.Peter and John Miles Longden used to meet as writers in the original Purple Onion in Bottomley Street, Middlesbrough back in the 1960&#8217;s.The new purple Onion was a different setting altogether and so the event was held at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}